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Medical Arts Pharmacy – Small Business of the Year
— written by Jeannie Rose Medical Arts Pharmacy of Henderson was presented the Vance County Small Business of the Year Award on Wednesday. The 2017 Small Business Luncheon for Franklin, Granville, Vance and Warren Counties was held at the Henderson Country Club Wednesday, May 3rd at noon. Craig Hahn, Executive Director of the Warren County Chamber of...
Food Safety Workshop for Produce Farmers
— written by Paul McKenzie Courtesy: Vance County Cooperative Extension On May 16, produce farmers have an opportunity to learn more about managing food safety risks from farm to market by attending a full day workshop on Navigating the Harmonized GAP Audit. This event, hosted by North Carolina Cooperative Extension, Vance County Center will be...
VGCC nominates student for statewide leadership award
Francis Scotland, Jr., of Oxford, a student in the College Transfer program at Vance-Granville Community College, was recently the college’s nominee for the North Carolina Community College System’s Governor Robert W. Scott Student Leadership Award for 2017. The award was established in 2004 in honor of Scott, who served as Governor of North Carolina from...
Vance County Early College High Selects Graduation Marshals
Vance County Schools For Immediate Release May 4, 2017 Students who are members of the junior class at the Vance County Early College High School have been selected as graduation marshals to assist in events for the Class of 2017. The 10 junior marshals were honored at a luncheon on April 28 at the school...
Granville County Crime Stoppers May Report
TO: News Media FROM: Granville County Crime Stoppers DATE: May 4th 2017 SUBJECT: BURGLARY/LARCENY/VANDALISM On Thursday, March 30th, 2017 during late evening hours an unknown person or persons unlawfully went upon...
2017 National Day of Prayer
WIZS 1450 AM and wizs.com broadcast the Day of Prayer Service at City Hall. There is a Facebook Live video of part of that service at facebook.com/wizsradio. WIZS also broadcast the local version of the 66th Annual National Day of Prayer Rally at 7 p.m. in the gym at Southern Vance High School. The entire...
Oxford Prep Claims First Varsity Baseball Conference Championship
With the regular season over, the Griffins finished 14-10 overall and 11-1 in conference play, clinching their very first baseball conference championship. The Griffins took another step forward in the young program’s history. Last year, in the first season of varsity play the team finished 12-12 overall and 3rd in the conference. The Griffins will...
Oxford Prep Middle School jumps into Softball with an undefeated inaugural season
The Griffin’s Middle School softball team finished their inaugural season unbeaten. “We are very proud of this team. We go from not being certain if we have enough interest to actually have enough play, to having a history making season,” says Head coach Joe Don Cooper. When Cooper and Assistant coach Eddie Blake opened try...
